LIKES:
To exercise power, preferably through intimidation. The feeling of dominance arising from my intellectual superiority and my prowess at tennis, single combat etc. To seduce noblemen’s wives – because it is forbidden by my vows and belittles the cuckolds – any physical pleasure (given or received) is incidental. Favourite book – “Il Principe” by Niccolo Machiavelli. – “It is better to be feared than loved.” A plan that comes together.
HATES (THE CARDINAL DOES NOT USE WISHY-WASHY EMOTIONS LIKE ‘DISLIKE’:
Boredom. Piety. People – pretty all-encompassing, but I can’t think of an exception. Any answer beginning with the word “No”. Any slight (true, false or imagined) against the family name
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PLAYED BY:
Paul French
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